The only possible form of self-awareness is knowing what you want to be true
The American social contract takes the form of an unholy allian… If you don’t question my authority… I won’t hold you accountable So, when our barons traded the US…
In a great leap forward Nanotech reduced life To avoiding death By turning life Into a video game
Losing what you never had is only possible when you look for it exactly where it never was
It’s not just that “Man is wolf to man” It’s that he has always known this about himself and yet
In the cold war the gravest danger was recklessnes… which we solved with Mutually Assured Destruction The culture war
I never believed in automatic writ… until I tried my hand at TikTok and felt an invisible hand gently (as in pleasantly) but insistently (as in relievedly)
The biggest change in my lifetime Has been the change in the meaning… They don’t have a prayer It used to mean They don’t have a chance
On the one hand even the talking cure can’t cure death On the other hand you can’t talk it to death
All the advanced metrics say that A bird in the hand Is worth two in the bush But the burning bush advances the… That we are consumed by jealously…
You could say– We flatter ourselves that In knowing all seven basic colors We’ve implicitly mastered every po… As if they weren’t infinite and th…
On Fresh Air they always mention that their rock historian lives in France as if he were in exile from rock a… the same way James Joyce wrote ab…
You’ll know whether you’re there to make things better or to make yourself feel better by how you react when you’re told you can do better
What if I could just do no wrong Then surely, I’d still get to bel… Perforce, I did nothing And found myself bluffing Whenever I needed to be strong
The only thing Bigger than my ego Is God’s plan for me